When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Failure isn't falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.