We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.