Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

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.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

Touch a day you will never see.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2, 900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

May the angels protect you, and sadness forget you.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.