You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm