The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars..

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on ….

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives..

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..

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave..

We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace….

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx..

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe..

Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the world of science and is not yet b….

f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is….

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country..

I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once agai….

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare..

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence..

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as g….

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is th….

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - w….

I like photographers - you don't ask questions. (To a gathering of the White House News Photographers Association).

The Federal Reserve is answerable to no one..

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so.

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, ….