I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.