“Trust, but verify.”

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.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

America is too great for small dreams.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Freedom is not free.