It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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.

Example is leadership.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

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.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few