I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association)

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.