I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

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!

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

You need to pursue purpose and time to be productive

Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don’t know your identity in Him, you’ll be lost forever.

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

You look like you're ready for bed!