“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.”

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.

I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

A picture is worth 1,000 denials.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit.

We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.

If you think you can – you can!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.

… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.