"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

“If you put the federal government in charge ofthe Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand”

“The Great Depression, like most other periodsof severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than byany inherent instability of the private economy.”

“Governments never learn. Only peoplelearn.”

“Only government can take perfectly good paper,cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”

“The greatest advances of civilization, whetherin architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry oragriculture, have never come from centralized government”

“So the question is, do corporate executives,provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their businessactivities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible?And my answer to that is, no they do not”

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporarygovernment program”

“There's no such thing as a freelunch.”

- Milton Friedman

"Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts."

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canalwith a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"Government's view of the economy could besummed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

- Ronald Reagan

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The greatpoint is to bring them the real facts."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come. "

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you wantto test a man's character, give him power."

"That some should be rich, shows that others maybecome rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. "

"Whatever you are, be a good one. "

- Abraham Lincoln

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else isnecessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot beconsidered within it.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by littlebarbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our incometaxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians frombeing big spenders.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then beprepared to accept barbarism.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors,hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors,hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of makingdecisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay noprice for being wrong.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your ownignorance.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past threedecades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the heartsof the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands ofbureaucrats.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only anintellectual could ignore or evade it.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is theirspecialty.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, whichin turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world andlosses of far more jobs than are saved.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, orwomen and men, but between talkers and doers.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask howmany Republicans there are in their sociology department.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnnycan't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; heconfuses it with feeling.

The real minimum wage is zero.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

- Thomas Sowell

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”

-James Madison

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

- Winston Churchill

"I know not what course others make take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and the keystone under independence."

- George Washington

"Let justice be done though the heavens should fail."

- John Adams

"Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights."

- Walter E. Williams

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

- General George S. Patton Jr.

"Hope is no basis for a defensepolicy."

- Margaret Thatcher

"The fundamental premise of liberalism is themoral incapacity of the American people."

- Alan Keyes

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pullingdown the strong."

- Calvin Coolidge

“Liberalism is totalitarianism with ahuman face”

- Thomas Sowell

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..."

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection."

"...I inhaled frequently. That was the point."

"I don't believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away."