Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

Much, not all, of the anti-government sentiment in the United States today is thinly veiled hatred of law and exaltation of brutal self-will. Thus it easily slips over into "righteous wrongdoing.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.

I believe in American political principles, and I will not sit idly by and see those principles destroyed by sorry practice. I am ashamed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.