To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.