"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."

"Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted."

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."