I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.