I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent.
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
America’s founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more – and nothing less.