“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

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.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it’s wrong.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

A child miseducated is a child lost.