We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not…

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a d…

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further …

Now listen, George, don't think about 1968. Think about 1988. You and me, we'll be dead and gone, then, George. [...] What do you want left after you, when you…

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no …

When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.