Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.