Reflections on Life and Liberty

We’ve been hustled by the Elephants and Donkeys. It’s time to stop playing the games.

Righteous ends don’t justify dishonorable means.

Most politicians wait to pick sides in a fight until they can tell who is going to win.

Faith is easy when it is safe.

The gooey, saccharine-sweet niceness demanded of us by politicians isn’t found anywhere in the Bible.

We celebrate not the end of the war of Independence, but its beginning—because that was when liberty was made real.

The fact is, America is anything but common.

However exalted or self-important we may think we are, we all eventually become a footnote in the great story of history. The monuments to our greatest achievements will become dusty artifacts for future archeologists. Michael Quinn Sullivan looks at what it means to have a lasting impact.