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Though now out of print, Hamilton Long’s 1963 primer on the Constitution and the traditional American philosophy provides powerful medicine in our times. I bought this time-tinted tome at a Goodwill store, where it had languished in dignified silence amidst the prattle of a hundred romance novels.
Below you’ll find a collection of quotes, mostly [...]

We just received our census questionnaire from the Federal government. It comes emblazoned with a foreboding all-caps message on the envelope:
YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW
This might lead you to believe you must answer all of the questions. The Census is, after all, one of a handful of Constitutionally-mandated exercises. The enclosed letter, printed on [...]

When I read the speech, given by a governor of one of these United States, I thought, ‘We have finally found the politician who understands limited, Constitutional, Republican government — in which the people and the states delegate specific powers to the Federal government, and retain all others to themselves.’
It is, perhaps, the best [...]