It is naive to think that what is done to the judicial filibuster will not later be done to its legislative counterpart, ... The legislative filibuster . . . in the not-so-distant past was our only defense against the excesses of a bipartisan liberalism.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.