[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.