If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.