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.

The noblest search is the search for excellence