It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.