“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

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.

Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.

Sometimes when I’m faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there’s a cook.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.