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

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

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

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.