Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.

We cannot waste time.  We can only waste ourselves.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government  to be educated.

The single most frightening thing you encounter is confidence-in-government  because it's so common.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.