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I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
Sep 10, 2025
Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
War is just one more big government program.
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
War is the Health of the State.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.