Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Quitting is leading too.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.