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

We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.

The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government. The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and community. The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow. This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.