Ronald Reagan on abortion

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).

Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Edward Abbey1927–1989One Life at a Time, Please (1988).