"…in the first place, an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Also
"Is there anything wrong with a woman preferring the dignity of an armed citizen? I don't like to be coddled and I don't like to be treated like a minor child."
And
"The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom.
"The American people have been conditioned from the cradle…to believe in and trust the dictatorship that rules them…. If you free them without adequate psychological preparation, like horses led from a burning barn, they will return to their accustomed place."
"Free men aren't 'conditioned!' Free men are free because they are ornery and cussed and prefer to arrive at their own prejudices in their own way—not have them spoonfed by a self-appointed mind tinkerer!"
"When any government…undertakes to say to its subjects, "This is what you may not read, this is what you must see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
"government'd classify sex if they could."
"he wouldn't let his baby girl grow up in a dictatorship just to catch some sleep."
"…no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."