I have seen the sea when it is strormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself. – Martin D. Buxbaum (1912–1991), in Table Talk
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didnt want. – Harry Browne
There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of peoples money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. – Steve Forbes
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens