Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)