All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

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

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

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.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.