The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.