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

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.

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

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.