Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

There is no evidence to support the belief that [Soviet Premier Nikita] Khrushchev ever questioned

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung—the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

Wh6n power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week’s exercise.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.