Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote down that what they sought was an escape from an old world which dictated their conscience and established their merit based on who their parents.