"It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed."

"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."

"A man without a vote is man without protection."

"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation."

"If the American people don't love me, their descendants will."

"John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many."

"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."

"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."

"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."

"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."

"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."

"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."

"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."

"Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel."

"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."

"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath."

"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."

"Freedom is not enough."

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."

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

"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."

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

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

"The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being."

"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women."

"I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's."

"Every President wants to do right."

"I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display."

"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store."

"I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence."

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."

"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands."

"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."

"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."

"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam."

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."

"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."

"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."

"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""

"Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!"

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."

"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you."

"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."