We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

The Great law is God's commandment.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.