Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith. |
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. |
Let us resolve that we will stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity; that we will stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom. |
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. |
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. |
Look, ask me what paper came to my desk last week and I couldn't tell you |
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right. |
Man is not free unless government is limited. |
Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions. |
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock |
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. |
Money can't buy happiness but it will get you a better class of memories |
Most (tax revisions) didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated |
Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991) |
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! |