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."

If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.