Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.