I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.