“If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”

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.

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.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards (“marcher vers”, Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.