Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power.And now he grabbed for power with both hands. To free his hands for the grab, he shook impatiently from them the last crumbs of the principles with which he had entered public service and for which, during his years of idealism, he had fought só hard.

What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.