. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

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!

I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself.

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

Every wall is a door.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.