In a clean break from the Obama years and frankly from the years before this president we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limits on the size of government and we choose to limit government.

The Federal Government should be the last resort not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately by voluntary organizations or by local or state governments.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game that we are only as a good as our opponents and whether you win or lose to always give 100 percent.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances or whether you are going to taste it enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Every day is a good day to be alive whether the sun's shining or not.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give whether it's bad or good.

Sooner or later man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator a God is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air the void or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not.

Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side for God is always right.