Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.