I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn’t? No one...

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,…without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

If illegal actions were undertaken, those who did so will be brought to justice.

Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back...

you get tired, sometimes, counting to 10 as a voice check and so forth.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

I made a speech by that title [A Time for Choosing] in 1964. I said, “We’ve been told increasingly that we must choose between left or right.” But we’re still using those terms — left...

I hope you’re all Republicans.

We’re vulnerable on that one, … They’ve done quite a job on me as ‘favoring the rich’ in our tax policies.

People don’t start wars, governments do.

Let us ask ourselves; ”What kind of people do we think we are?”

The Bridge to Nowhere.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a...

We do not deny any nation’s legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it...

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

does not look kindly to this cutting-edge-type litigation.

Knute Rockne, All American.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and...

There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind...

Ronald Reagan Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2005.

I know you receive many letters like this, and I recognize that over time they must come to seem fairly routine, … Please understand, however, that my years in your service will always be very...

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose — somehow we win out

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root… Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the...

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or...

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don’t make war, governments do.

Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American,

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

How can a president not be an actor?

Alexander’s widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at several theatres around the country at the same time.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Dear Haley, did you hear the one about . . .

If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the...

the Berlin Wall came down, the Evil Empire collapsed, and the cause of liberty prevailed in the world.

My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual’s constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government — at point of bayonet if...

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to...