H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Guns know no policy except destruction.