No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

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!

Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Not everyone who wanders is lost.

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.