There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.