According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation [not] from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires…[but] liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.
All members of the human family [must] be respected and protected irrespective not only of race, sex, and ethnicity but also of age, size, location, stage of development, and condition of dependency. To exclude anyone from the law's protection is to treat him unjustly.
Even unanimity of belief does not guarantee its correctness.
Let Republicans be mindful of their heritage. It was moral conviction—and the courage to act on [it]—that gave birth to the Republican Party and made it grand. Now it is old but need not be any less grand.
Limited government is a key tenet of classic liberalism—the liberalism of people like Madison and Tocqueville—although today it is regarded as a conservative ideal.
The concentration of economic power in the hands of government is something every true friend of civil liberties should, by now, have learned to fear.
The family, based on the marital commitment of husband and wife, is the original and best ministry of health, education, and welfare.
The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage. These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.
To countenance abortion is not to respect women's 'privacy' or liberty; it is to suppose that some people have the right to decide whether others will live or die.
What happened with slavery is now happening with embryo killing: the people who used to defend it as a 'necessary evil'…now promote it as a social good….
