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 future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.