To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!