I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

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