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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

That government is best which governs least.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress….This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

…that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people’s lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.