The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

What convinces is conviction.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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.