To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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!

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

What does it matter, all is grace.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.