A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

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.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.