America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.
An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count.
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.
If you’ve seen one redwood tree, you’ve seen them all.
We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we’ve accomplished. Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children’s classrooms.
Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.
If the family goes, so goes our civilization.
We’re the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
We’re told about a woman’s right to control her own body. But doesn’t the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can – and often will – do too much.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn’t one of making government bigger, it’s keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God.
The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom’s front. And we thank God for them.
The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America’s becoming a great nation.
Yes, deficits are a problem. I’ve been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it’s the size of government’s claim on our economy.
Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.