Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.