“Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.”

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.

I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

As government expands, liberty contracts.