It’s not doing what is right that’s hard for a President. It’s knowing what is right.

He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.

There’s so much that we have yet to do — the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we’ve...

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

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.

It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and...

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.