A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
I’ve played everything – baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That’s why I can’t walk.
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.
I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.
I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice.
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
I will offer a choice, not an echo.