Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

The only thing we should prohibit is violence.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.