The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.