To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake – but for the nation’s sake.
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.