All government, of course, is against liberty.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I am not a crook.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.