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.

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us.

Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the best choice when fools, opportunists and grafters run it. When power is for sale, then the government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.

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