The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

[a]nd the Pig Man came in from Waitomo and swore that if Louisa didn't marry him he'd damn well vote Labour at the next ele

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.

Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'.