If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

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

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.