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

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.

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.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah..

Never let the things you can’t do, stop you from doing what you can.

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.

We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.