The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

The color of communism was not red but gray.

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.