Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease.

Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.