Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'