Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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!

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism