In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

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

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.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.