History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.