If 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 a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

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, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

I feel that the whole Western World will benefit by the resurrection of the neutron bomb project.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.

Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

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

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.