The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

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!

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.