It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.