A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free-not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of communism.
Now, certainly, simple honesty is not too much to demand of men in government.
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace.
I believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its extension tomorrow.
This is a party, this Republican Party, a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists.
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