We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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.

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn’t everything.

Age considers youth ventures.

We must learn to see the world anew.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.