Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation". And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. . . . We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave-masters". |
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership - not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. |
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. |
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will. |
Today we Americans lost a hero who always seemed larger than life. ... Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a life unsurpassed. In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we strive to be. |
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. |
Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again. |
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. |
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. |
too choked up to speak. |
Touch you I must or I'll burst, This morning I'm ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you. |
Touch you I must or I'll burst. |
Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. |
Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history. |
Two Tribes. |