In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.

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