The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble.

They committed no crime in holding this meeting ... the Cuban government is violating civil rights here.

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.