A vice is a failure of desire.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)

He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.