If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on their wings of fortune.

Jesus came to be the light for the world, and then there's the Christmas star and the idea of letting your light shine...But not blinding your neighbor with it.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

Intelligence is ten million rules.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.