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

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or...

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has...

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Everyone with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder anyone within the realm.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids...

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own...

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their...

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder, their Constitution a miracle, their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

The surest way to prevent seditions... is to take away the matter of them.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us. Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

Democracy is a poor system

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle {achievable only through government}.

It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses inventive exploration, minimizes the...

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political...

One of the {many} problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power,...

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of...

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational...

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!