Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.