It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining... - Lyndon B. Johnson
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson
If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". - 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
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
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. - Lyndon B. Johnson
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson