In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let’s remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence – in education or any other walk of life.
A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That’s how awful the loss is.
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.
We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability.
The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.
America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that’s come before them, where we’re involved, and it didn’t upset my breakfast at all.
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.
The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.
I don’t have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.
Double – no, triple – our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth.
Governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people.
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.