We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.