I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. JohnsonDoing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAny man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.
Lyndon B. Johnson