A PRESIDENT'S PHILOSOPHY
I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America. He collects it from the scattered hopes of the American past.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
THE President of this country, more than any other single man in the world, must grapple with the course of events and the directions of history. What he must try to do, try to do always, is to build for tomorrow in the immediacy of today.
THE promise of America is a simple promise: every person shall share in the blessings of this land.
UNTIL justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation
will be a proclamation, but not a fact.
THE Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth, but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where
we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people.
Excerpts from a lifetime of speeches by LYNDON B. JOHNSON
