Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.