A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.