But the critical test is whether government is genuinely working to liberate individuals by creating incentives to work, save, invest, and succeed. Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom.