The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Apathy's a problem but who cares?

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

After all, I was once like you are, but being the right sort I got where I am.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.