This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.