Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

We are the people are parents warned us against.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

Your vibes define your character.Be the one for whom people demand, When you know you are destined for greatness, You feel incomplete until you succeed.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

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We met in a school elevator, and he could tell from the way I spoke that we had some sadness in common.

I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian.

It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.