For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea.