Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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!

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

When someone is kissing you passionately, you feel passionate!

I don't like to say. I like to just surprise people.

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

I was going to die and it was taking forever.