aren’t lazy or unwilling to work: they just don’t know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket. - Ronald Reagan

At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.