Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

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The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

He is truly great in who hath power over himself.

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

One truth, many paths.

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?