The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.