Some have tried to pose a choice between American ideals and American interests - between who we are and how we act. But the choice is false. America, by decision and destiny, promotes political freedom - and gains the most when democracy advances. America believes in free markets and free trade - and benefits most when markets are opened. America is a peaceful power - and gains the greatest dividend from democratic stability. Precisely because we have no territorial objectives, our gains are not measured in the losses of others. They are counted in the conflicts we avert, the prosperity we share and the peace we extend.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generat…

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is 'the soul's right to breathe.'

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. …

'My late mother used to say that it did not matter if you came to this country on the Mayflower or a slave ship, across the Rio Grande or through Ellis Island;…

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress - these, for the most part, ill…