Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that's entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn't move and does nothing and that's the whole point? I think Americans would relate to and embrace that mentality.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's the best place to hang a noose. More politicians need to be sticking their necks out for us.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors, I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.