521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Is our world gone? We say "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

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

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 a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.