If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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

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

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.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use....

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

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also...

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

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

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

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

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

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The sergeant is the Army.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

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

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 dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.