Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to...
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.