Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it..

What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic soc….

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice..

No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is….

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republ….

Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of u….

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth..

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, ….

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor..

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise econom….

I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a….

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry..

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia..

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event..

To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tra….

It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, ….

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord..

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare.".

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work..

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute….