That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.