The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than having soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week's exercise.
If you face a man’s job, find a woman!
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.
A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.