I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

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!

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.