If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

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

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.