Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

[T]he 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.

A man without a vote is a man without protection.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

The noblest search is the search for excellence

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a slow learner.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

This is a mThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.oment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

I'm the only president you've got.