There are no favourites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the colour of his skin.

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

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is thinking.