Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.