The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.