We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].