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’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
What convinces is conviction.
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.