You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, no...
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gav...
When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restraine...
The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases......
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closel...
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler...
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
