A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.
Beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.
I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise.
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
If you chasing popularity, you're chasing a moment, you're chasing a puff of air.
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.... [This is] the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity.
There's an old saying in Tennessee...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again.
