That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

You always hear about the guy who was raised by wolves. You never hear about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. The problem is, you have a non-wolf imparting wolf teachings.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.