America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

We are no longer fighting a great enemy, we are asserting a great principle: that the talents and dreams of average people - their warm human hopes and loves -…

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

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

'It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,' -words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …

When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that …