I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

...... I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.