#ed

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#country #danger #disease #few #hate

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, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless

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

#anything #because #believe #credit #ever

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#common #common faith #democratic #faith #freedom

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#big enough #bigger #demands #enough #every

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anybody #being #felt #hasn #held

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#freedom #freedom from #ignorance

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#conclude #equivalent #eyes #facts #female

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#accordingly #another #distrust #i #lost

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#calls #deserves #fight #him #his