Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.