The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.

The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".