If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they … Read more

I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

I have three daughters, so I can’t be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. They’re a lot smarter than we are, that’s for sure. But I’ll be more tough on their boyfriends.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.