Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.