“ Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ 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 con… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the communi… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, n… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrial… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ 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. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson
“ The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. Lyndon B. Johnson
