Because I have nowhere else to write these things down. Sorry.

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American exceptionalism is not a boast, it is a challenge–a challenge to harvest the fruits of liberty and to share those fruits.

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Liberty is a muscle, it only grows stronger when vigorously exercised.

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The Constitution was intended as a shield against tyranny. A shield being preferable to other methods of defense.

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As Christian conservatives we must always remember that the Consititution we cherish is but a means to an end, not the end itself.

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When the American dream of the guarantee of liberty and opportunity is disowned in favor of equality, the only guarantee left is misery.

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The worst chastisement that God can inflict on mankind is to let us have our way.

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No Constitution can prevent a brutish people from cannibalizing their own liberty forever. Ours did better than most.

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When liberty becomes license, virtue becomes taxable. And what you tax you get less of, which is probably the point.