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.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.