The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil...

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

I know it’s hard when you’re up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Why should we be frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living...

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people’s income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes...

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy.”

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We’ll have to get four bedpans and have a reunion

Well, I learned a lot… I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn) their views. You’d be surprised. They’re all individual countries

Facts are stupid things.

Let us beware that while they [Soviet rulers] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination over all the peoples of the earth, they are the...

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.

All systems are capitalist. It’s just a matter of who owns and controls the capital — ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system...

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and...

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can’t hide.

The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women,...

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

You know, by the time you reach my age, you’ve made plenty of mistakes if you’ve lived your life properly.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Touch you I must or I’ll burst, This morning I’m ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!