Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

There is no pure free-market economy.