While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.