The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco.
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace – for it is education that places reason over force.
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation’s concerns now is not only for man’s enjoyment-but for man’s survival.
I won’t have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
A President must call on many persons – some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I’m going to Vietnam.
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
I know – from personal experience – that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.