Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.