Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.

What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.