Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.