The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.