If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

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!

For you, a thousand times over!

What are you planting today to harvest tomorrow?

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

To dance is to live!

Every day is a reminder of what I need to do to be the best person; the best me.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.