I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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.
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.
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.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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.
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.
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.
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