What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.