The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

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

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?

Once created, federal programs are nearly impossible to eliminate.

Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether our shortcomings, brought to light by 9/11, could have been a result of too much government.