Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.