When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.