The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.