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

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else.

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.