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.

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.

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

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

Every fall happens in a slow fade.

All movements go too far.

I now see the necessity of a beginning.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

The best explanation why people agree is that they have converged on true answers.

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!