The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

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!

Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us. (January 15)

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.