You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs!

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.