I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.