If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

This is a Christian nation.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Leadership is getting people to do things that they don't want to do.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."