I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.