You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.