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

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.