Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.