There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.