Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

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

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

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.