We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

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

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.