Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

You’ll never have the chance to work this stuff out unless you give yourself the chance.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.