Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThis is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. JohnsonScarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel
Lyndon B. JohnsonA rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Lyndon B. Johnson