There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

It’s not stress that kills people, but how they react to it.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.