The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.