No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.