If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

I hope you're all Republicans.

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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.