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

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

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.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.