Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

Americans are hungering to feel proud and patriotic again.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.