It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

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.

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

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

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.

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

You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defence.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.