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.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

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

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

Harden our hearts. To the innocents in the womb and we have hardened our hearts. To the need for compassion and mercy and. Fellow feeling. And charity. And decency in this world.