The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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!

You didn't just cheat on me

Do we ever get slow rain?

A true dreamer dreams when he is awake.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.