Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Don't fight forces, use them.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
