Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I'm not smart enough to lie