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.
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.