When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

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

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.