It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

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

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

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.

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.

We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.