I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

People do not make wars; governments do.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.