Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessnessif we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistr...”

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

“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”

“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”

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

“Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the comm...”

“Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath.”

“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 ...”

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”

“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”

“The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.”

“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 rea...”

“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.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industr...”

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”

“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”

“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”