Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

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!

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Dance is the art closest to nature.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.