The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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.
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 live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
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.
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.