You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.