If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made it more beautiful.

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Change before you have to.

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.