'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember o…

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall pr…

I won a nickname, 'The Great Communicator.' But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a grea…

There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failu…

'The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble …

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people whi…