Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

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 reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

If you could see yourself the way that others do, you'd wish you were as beautiful as you.

I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

[Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless.

I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.