If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.