"Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.”

“If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.”

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.”

“I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.”

“In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”

“From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman”