These things I believe:

  • That government should butt out.
  • That freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away.
  • That individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
  • That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
  • That the executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant, and the legislative branch too stupid.
  • That political parties have become close to meaningless.
  • That government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
  • That government should provide for the national defense and work to insure domestic tranquillity.
  • That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
  • That America should be wary of foreign entanglements.
  • That the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  • That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
  • That states are the bulwark of our freedom.
  • That states should have the right to secede from the Union.
  • That once a year we should hang someone in government as an example to his fellows.