There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

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.

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!

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I believe you can joke about anything.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.