The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.