If I don’t have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.
I’m 43 years old and I’m the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You’ve travelled with me enough to know that I’m not going to die in office.
Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world.
Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
An artist’s working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can’t find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.
I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn’t satisfied.
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.
We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.
But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.
The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable – and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men – brave men – will make it so.
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
What’s the use of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?
To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.