 Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one. |
| If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. |
| If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. |
| We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. |
| 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. |
| The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. |
| The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. |
| 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. |
| Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. |
| 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. |
| A man without a vote is man without protection. |
| I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. |
| 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. |
| We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. |
| What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. |
| This 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. |
