The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences. Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources, which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw garbage into our neighbor's yard.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.