Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

All cats are not gray after midnight.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.