“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

America is too great for small dreams.

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

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Freedom is not free.

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.