Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.