When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.

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

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

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.