The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.