In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

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!

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

A lonely impulse of delight

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Rediscover the joy of believing.

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.