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.

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.

Well, I would – if they realized that we – again if – if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first...

I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That’s our ultimate goal.

In raising and instructing our children, in providing personal and compassionate care for the elderly, in maintaining the spiritual strength of religious commitment among our people– in these and other ways, America’s families make immeasurable...

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...

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by...

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

[The truth, of course, is that Kerry, relying on the notion that voters hold a negative view of the Bush-Cheney status quo, fills the traditional role of the] gloom and doom … better off today...

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today’s world but for a better one to...

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of...

Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears.

No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job...

We begin bombing (the Russians) in five minutes.

Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.

In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind — too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. . ....

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

Putting people first has always been America’s secret weapon. It’s the way we’ve kept the spirit of our revolutions alive — a spirit that drives us to dream and dare, and take great risks for...

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

Today we Americans lost a hero who always seemed larger than life. … Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a life unsurpassed. In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we strive...

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave