The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.