Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.