For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

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.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.