At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.