"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers."

"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card."

"There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly."

"You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The true measure of a man is the only true currency in life is time well spent."