Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.