“These natural rights are bigger than man, and as so many great philosophers have written, we figure them out through human reason, human reason. Cicero called it ‘right reason’ – proper reasoning.
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“So when people say, ‘We’ve tried conservatism, and it didn’t work. We’ve tried conservatism, and the Republicans turned on us. We’ve tried … .’ You understand, this notion of conservatism, which embraces the Declaration of Independence and all that’s gone before, that undergirds mankind, is bigger than one election cycle, and it’s bigger than one ten-year period.
“It’s absolutely absurd to say conservatism has been tried. You either live it or you don’t, but it doesn’t go away. Unalienable rights don’t go away because current-day politicians are deceitful, and shameless liars, and unconscionable about the way they campaign. That doesn’t mean your natural rights or unalienable rights disappear because of them.
“They’re God-given. No man can give them. No man can take them away. No government can give them. No government can take them away.”