If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.
There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.
There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.
Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.
There are no degrees of honesty.
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America’s future will be as great as her past.
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others – white and black – preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.
America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.
Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.
I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, ‘There is a price we will not pay.’ There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase ‘Peace through strength.’
Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.
We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.
It doesn’t do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don’t have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don’t need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.
Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.
When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
The fact is, we’ll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.