We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.

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

We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans.

Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.