If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

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 believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.