America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.