But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.