THE FOUNDATION: LAW
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” —James Wilson

INSIGHT
“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.” —William Wordsworth

“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” —John Quincy Adams

“We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear—unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called ‘the insolence of elected persons’ —in a word, free men.” —Gerald Johnson

“I have looked politics and movies both over, and while they have much in common, I believe politics is the most common. So I will stay with the movies.” —Will Rogers

UPRIGHT
“The American people are not racists. They don’t hate immigrants. They believe in the rule of law…” —Maggie Gallagher “Why am I so suspicious about the fealty of the reformers to real border control? In part because of the ridiculous debate over the building of a fence. Despite the success of the border barrier in the San Diego area, it appears to be very important that this success not be repeated.” —Charles Krauthammer

“What is at risk is not the climate but freedom. I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.” —Czech president Vaclav Klaus

“The Democrats, flush from their 2006 election gains, took over Congress in January, promising to end the legislative stalemate and pass a sweeping agenda for reform. Nearly six months later, they have backpedaled on their promises of reform; they’ve made little progress on major legislation; their job-approval ratings have taken a nosedive; and there’s talk for the first time that House Democrats could lose seats to the Republicans in 2008.” —Donald Lambro

“If you are looking for a true political leader, you can just pass right over Harry Reid. He is perfectly willing to give aid and comfort to the enemy—likely putting American soldiers at greater risk by his comments—for political gain.” —Rich Galen

“I don’t want to turn the keys of this country over to Hillary Clinton or anyone else on that side of the aisle, quite frankly. I think with me [in the race], we wouldn’t have to do that.” —Fred Thompson