Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.