"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."

"Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive."

"The federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government."

"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path."

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."

"The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job."

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

"Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."

"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream."

"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"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."

"Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

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

"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program."

"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together."

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."

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

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

"A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill."

"I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."

"I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."

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

"The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave."

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

"Radio was theater of the mind."

"If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms."