There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.