Frederic Bastiat

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.