There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need. '
I would like to suggest to you that the extent to which government in America has departed from the original design of in habiting the destructive actions of man and invoking a common justice; the extent to which government has invaded the productive and creative areas; the extent to which the government in this country has assumed the responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of our people is a measure of the extent to which socialism has developed here in this land of ours.
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.
The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.
I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.
Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.