We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.