It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism. 
There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul. 
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God. 
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty. 
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come. 
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there. 
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. 
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. 
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. 
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? 
Rights come from God and only from God. 
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship. 
I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois. 
Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. 
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. 
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled. 
I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign. 
We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties. 
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takesand especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes. 
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. 