Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Government is best which governs least
We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
That government is best which governs least.
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Time is the only thing you can't buy.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
