I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.