If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.
The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.
We all get 24 hours a day. . . It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.