The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

The longer the title, the less important the job.