Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.