It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope in a country that's free so that when other generations look back at this conservative era in American politics and our time in power, they'll say of us that we did hold true to that dream of Joseph Winthrop and Joseph Warren, that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill.

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