"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."

"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."

"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."

"The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future."

"Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment."

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."