Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.