At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

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!

Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.