Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

The United States and Israel share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective -- taking over the South by force -- could not be achieved.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

True poverty does not come from God.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.