If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

The press is the enemy.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.