I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.