Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got back, he wasn't sure where he'd been. But most important of all, he did it on someone else's money.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.