My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Well for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.