I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere