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

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

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

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

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.

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.