I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.
