"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."

"Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat."

"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."

"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."

"The paradox of freedom is that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"

"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

"It is a timeless truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."