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

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

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

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.