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

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.

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

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.

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

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

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.