War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

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

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

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.