The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Never wait for the alarm clock to wake you up

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

Every dimension is special.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.