I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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