Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.