We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

I’ll be like Scarlett O’Hara-I’ll think about it tomorrow.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.