Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence.

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.