Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

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.