If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhen the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLet us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDemocracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThis right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAll men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON