The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

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.

The power of your prayer lies in your knowing that God is there right beside you.

Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.