Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Stop telling the truth about my record!
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
All the wisdom doesn’t reside in one party.
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. . . . when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it.
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and. . . evil.
The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.