Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough -- to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

The tremendous increase in productivity in American farms is really the most astonishing phenomenon in the free world.

A strong America...depends on its farms and natural resources.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

Happiness is the full use of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising politicians-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

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.

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome -- and I'm not convinced of these -- they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.