What convinces is conviction.

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!

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory.

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

He licked up to her ear and whispered, “You taste like summer. Did I ever mention, summer is my favorite season?

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.