“The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.”

If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

The big thing is to make this country – quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay. You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They’re American citizens.

Perserverance. . .that’s been the story of my family.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty.

I’m the most underdog underdog there is.

After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

I certainly believe in aliens in space, and that they are indeed visiting our planet. They may not look like us, but I have very strong feelings that they have advanced beyond our mental capabilities.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Government should stay the hell out of people’s business.

In your heart you know he’s right.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we’re seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse – the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

I’d rather see a woman elected…They understand they can’t spend more money than the old man brings home.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try – by punishing the troublesome – to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.

I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.