The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

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."