My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.