Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.