“There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.”

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.