The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

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 past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Communication works for those who work at it.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.