If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That's how we began; this i...
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the D...
Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 mi...
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster
Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's w...
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.