Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

If the government paid you to fail, would you change your business strategy? Of course not.

By throwing billions of dollars of tax payer money to these huge corporations we not only impose a huge economic sanction against the American people but we also remove the entrepreneurial incentive necessary to create a competitive company with a desire to succeed where these government-backed corporations have failed.

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.