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

The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.

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.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

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.