A man without a vote is man without protection.
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.