“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.