Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

My belief has always been... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.