Rights come from God and only from God.

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

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

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

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

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

[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.