Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow, Jesus Christ, anyway?

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.