I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

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.

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.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

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.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Childhood is the best period of life...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.