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.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.