Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.