It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.