The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

[The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the White House to report the good news.] You must have made a hell of a speech out there today, ... We are proud.

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

we just added a couple of zeroes to it.

There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,