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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.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

He who is brave is free.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

That government is best which governs least.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword’s point… We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

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

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.