Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads.

Jesus Himself was the first missionary . . .He pledged His followers to be missionaries too!

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers