"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention."

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

"A hungry man is not a free man."

"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."

"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

"Laws are never as effective as habits."

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."

"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."

"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics."

"Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket."

"Making peace is harder than making war."

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."

"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."

"It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."