“If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world.”

“The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.”

“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.”

“Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.”

“If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.”

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.”

“Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.”

“Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.”

“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishin...”

“[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.”

“If their social institutions were abhorrent, their unwritten constitution bordered upon the absurd. The absolutist monarchs of the ancient kingdoms of Amara looked with detestation at the Shazarian...”

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

“Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the word...”

“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man in society.The Declaration of Independence was the product of...”

“You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which...”