The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.