But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.