"Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex."

"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service."

"Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery."

"I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism."

"I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one."

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

"Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us."

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."

"Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."

"A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general."

"There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury."

"When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg."

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."