- "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention, 1964.
- I don't think there was any Reagan revolution. This country is based, its economy is based, on free enterprise. The government's based on a constitutional democracy. And all Reagan did was to continue what Harry Truman did and George Washington started.
- Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
- To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
- Hubert H. Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
- You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
- Mr. Nixon hurt the Republican Party and he hurt America and, frankly, I don't think he should ever be forgiven. He came as close to destroying this country as any one man in that office ever has come.
- A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
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