A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.