One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
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.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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.
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.
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