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 The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore. Lyndon B. Johnson trenches frontiers classroom For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. Lyndon B. Johnson asks can-do helping Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson offers poverty bars I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation. Lyndon B. Johnson talking men believe The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival. Lyndon B. Johnson men civilization beach Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous. Lyndon B. Johnson air blow clouds True poverty does not come from God. Lyndon B. Johnson yiddish poverty doe It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate. Lyndon B. Johnson fate home children Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. Lyndon B. Johnson effort law justice Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice. Lyndon B. Johnson color race justice When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled. Lyndon B. Johnson family community children I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. Lyndon B. Johnson election opponents museums One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. Lyndon B. Johnson lessons president golf The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. Lyndon B. Johnson fifth ignorance 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. Lyndon B. Johnson church doe men They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. Lyndon B. Johnson asian jobs boys For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force. Lyndon B. Johnson achievement path world When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. Lyndon B. Johnson wake-up lunch boys I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. Lyndon B. Johnson credit successful believe It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness. Lyndon B. Johnson affection honesty heart
