Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.
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.
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
If not us, who? And if not now, when?
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
