The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

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.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.