"I heartily accept the motto, "That government..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

“There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.”

“Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.”

“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”

“The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state”

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”

“In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.”