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.

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.

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

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

The color of communism was not red but gray.