We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

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

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.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.