Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.