...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

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

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

What convinces is conviction.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.