You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.