I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done

We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols that protect what we cherish.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, w

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word - voluntary

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony

A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America