I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.

Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.