I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.