Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.