The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.