Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute – often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation’s, we’d all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn’t carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, ‘If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain’t going to solve it.’

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation’s soul.

American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won’t reach us.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute – not much to recommend them.

There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

Don’t live beyond your means. Don’t buy more than you can pay for. Don’t expect to get rich quick. And don’t confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it’s bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.