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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.

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

He who is brave is free.

God helps those who help themselves.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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

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.

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

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

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

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

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

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

That government is best which governs least.

Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

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.

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

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

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

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.