May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

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

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

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

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer -- never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership -- to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.