Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out on one half of life.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.