Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

The raven – Asker – immediately cawed. It sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Not... be afraid of Asker.” The raven’s button eyes gleamed. “He only eats worms… you are not worm.

The waves are rough in a sea of adversity. Learning to swim in that setting provides you with one heck of an opportunity.

I stopped short and sighed as Derek stepped up behind me, arms sliding around my waist. I leaned back against him and rel

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows that I'm super into fantasy sports. I like to make money on my sports knowledge basically.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.