The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.

Potentially 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.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

It's good to know how to read but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.