And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

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 love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Question Everything

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness