“Security without liberty is called prison.”

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Words may show a man’s wit, actions his meaning.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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.

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.