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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.