I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.

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."