In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier Christmas Day of 1982 just after I had been first elected to a full term that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

My share of the work may be limited but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

For any of us in this room today let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in our grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were so limited.

Four years of world war at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up we will then begin to live each day to the fullest as if it was the only one we had.

My father was a teacher and there were teachers all around his friends they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

Like many people most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.