I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

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

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

[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.

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.