A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. Lyndon B. Johnson mastery hate way We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow. Lyndon B. Johnson population future water My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it. Lyndon B. Johnson prayer boys country The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments. Lyndon B. Johnson tests people commitment The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. Lyndon B. Johnson mind children knowledge Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything. Lyndon B. Johnson want writing may Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. Lyndon B. Johnson citizens age years I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall. Lyndon B. Johnson wall want america 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? Lyndon B. Johnson light sleep night Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing. Lyndon B. Johnson bombs want may I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together. Lyndon B. Johnson community believe country So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel. Lyndon B. Johnson real law america If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them. Lyndon B. Johnson chinese fighting thinking The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. Lyndon B. Johnson wartime lasts president Every President wants to do right. Lyndon B. Johnson president want Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone. Lyndon B. Johnson stones wish doe The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual. Lyndon B. Johnson future greatness yesterday Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship. Lyndon B. Johnson colorado-river rivers jobs You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down. Lyndon B. Johnson feel-good giving men There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points. Lyndon B. Johnson essentials mother two
