A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

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