Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

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.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.