You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.