The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true. |
The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. |
The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60 percent or more of his extra pay? |
The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. |
The movie was the life story of baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, who begin his professional career with a Galesburg minor league team in the early teens, |
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations. |
The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development. |
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. |
the resolve to stay in the fight until the fight was won. |
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. |
The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause. |
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world |
The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted -- because everyone would join that party. |
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. |
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job. |