When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.