Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.