You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

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.

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

Liberty is not enough.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.