The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.