Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'