In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.