A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.

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

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

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

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.