We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.