The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

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.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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