Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.