If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
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.
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.
I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm
We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.
Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
What convinces is conviction.
You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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