If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.

Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now.

I just have to believe that with love for our natural heritage and a firm resolve to preserve it with wisdom and care, we can and will give the American land to our children, not impaired, but enhanced. And in doing this, we'll honor the great and loving God who gave us this land in the first place.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.