I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

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."

I like riding a bicycle built for two--by myself.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.