We are not Europeans. We are not, in Orwell's phrase, a "state-broken people."
It is a principle of liberal social legislation that a program for the poor is a poor program.
[D]ependency is the agenda of the other side.
I believe that today, as has been the case for 100 years, and as will be the case for the foreseeable future, the American political argument is an argument between two Princetonians: James Madison of the class of 1771, and Thomas Woodrow Wilson of the class of 1879.
The very virtue of a constitution is that it's not changeable. It exists to prevent change, to embed certain rights so that they cannot easily be taken away.
Madison said rights pre-exist government. Wilson said government exists to dispense whatever agenda of rights suits its fancy, and to annihilate, regulate, attenuate, or dilute others.
We are going to come to a time when America is going to have to revisit Madison's Federalist Paper no. 45, and his statement, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined."
Gridlock is not an American problem, it is an American achievement!
[W]e always have more to fear from government speed than government tardiness.
We are told that one must not be a "Party of No." To "No," I say an emphatic "Yes!"
[T]he most beautiful five words in the English language are the first five words of the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law."
The Bill of Rights is a litany of "No's."
The American people are, I think, healthier than they are given credit for. They have only one defect. They have nothing to fear, right now, but an insufficiency of their fear itself. It is time for a wholesome fear of what people with a dependency agenda are trying to do. We have few allies. We don't have Hollywood, we don't have academia, and we don't have the mainstream media. But we have two things. First, we have arithmetic. The numbers do not add up, and cannot be made to do so. Second, we have the Cato Institute. The people in this room are what the Keynesians call "a multiplier." And, for once, they are right!
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