I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

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!

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

If you're old enough, you're good enough

Who knows but the world may end tonight

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.