There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

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

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.