Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.