Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.