Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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.
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
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.
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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.
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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.
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.
Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.
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.
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
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.
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.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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.
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
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