Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

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!

One part of my consciousness serves only one realm.

Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.

Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.