Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.