Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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.
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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
People don't start wars, governments do.