The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

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.