We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
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.
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.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantly and without interruption. If it's really going to work the relationship between the president an...
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassu...
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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...
Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.