Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.