For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

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

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.