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

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

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