Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

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

And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

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 the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.

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.