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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."

"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."

"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."

"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."

"The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product for his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational."

"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked."
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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