The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

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.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

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.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

War is just one more big government program.

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.