All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

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!

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.