Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

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!

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

Don’t underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God’s Word.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.