If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I’ve just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
The world has been close to war before – but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.
Everything changes but change itself.
Race has no place in American life or law.
When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, ‘I served in the United States Navy!’
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He’s helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.
One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.
Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies – and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America – in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.
Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.
It is no contradiction – the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today’s economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.
Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!