Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.