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

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.

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.

Sometimes, you’re the person taking advantage of yourself.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.