When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

I think the Congress finally has succumbed to the very infectious virus of bigness that began at the beginning of the century, when we first heard about big business. After a while we heard about big government. Then we began to hear about big labor. This whole bigness idea has intruded itself on the thinking of the country.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.