...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.

The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

The more we give to others, the more we are increased.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

Interest is the invention of Satan.