You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.

We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Barack Obama Jimmy Carter loses his.

Sorry, the devil made me do it!

I’m convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government’s primary concerns.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

My Take –

Generational welfare should have never been allowed to happen.  Americans will always there to give a hand up.  We don’t like giving an eternal handout.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

My Take:

If we do not pass on to our children and their children how precious and ephemeral our freedoms are, they will not just lose them, but gladly give them away.  This goes beyond the RKBA movement.  People who let others tell them how they should worship, how they should speak and write, or that criminals do not have at least some rights are not much more than slaves to their government.