If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.