. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.