Senator Chris Mcdaniel

A longtime conservative commentator and two-term senator, Chris is a strong proponent of liberty and traditional conservative thought – a modern fusion of Judeo-Christian principles, free enterprise, limited government, fiscal responsibility, reduced tax rates, strong national defense, federalism and Constitutional checks and balances from an originalist perspective.

Senator Chris McDaniel's Blog

14 May 2013
Tennyson's Reminder
1 May 2013
Radio Interview on Religious Liberty Act
30 Apr 2013
Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Who will prevail?
17 Mar 2013
Geoff Pender and "notable quotes"
13 Mar 2013
Statement on SB 2633 (The Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act)
Show All

News

19 May 2013
WDAM: McDaniel says taxpayers have good reason to mistrust central government
14 May 2013
Senator McDaniel to speak at William Carey University Graduation
1 May 2013
Starkville Daily News: McDaniel speaks in Starkville
30 Apr 2013
WLBT: Terrorism added to MS death penalty statute (w/Video)
12 Apr 2013
NEWSMS: McDaniel to ACLU -- Bring it on.
Show All

Quote

 

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. 
 

 

Perhaps more than any system designed before or after, our Constitution acknowledges that all men are fallible and that since no man can perfectly rule another, all men must rule themselves.
 

 

Our "revolution" is their revolution -- a continuation of the American revolution and the principles of the Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution and a prudent foreign policy. That is what they taught us, and that is what we now defend.
 

 

I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue.
 

We are common people, but of good sense - men and women of the soil, whose virtues arise from the simplicity of life. In other words, we are precisely the kind of creatures who are despised by central planners. Haters of tyranny, lovers of ordered liberty – a stubborn people, indeed.

There is no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

quote-ornament