For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn't simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.