I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

People will always want a free lunch.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.