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.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.