A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

You can’t shine if you don’t burn.

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.