If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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