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.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

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

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

A woman can produce what no man can: a child.