The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.