When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.