We face a great task, publicly and privately, of catching up with our full potential and making life as good as it can be and making life as good as it should be for this generation of Americans.

This is by any standard one of the most profoundly significant domestic measures to be enacted by the Congress during the 1960's.

I applaud the courage of those who are helping to help make and break new ground in this regard.

We do not seek and we do not want--and the conscience of the American people will never tolerate--a concept of justice which seeks convictions at the expense of human decency and at the expense of liberty and at the expense of privacy.

There is much more that I would like to take the time to say to you, but I was once told by an old lawyer friend of mine that two thousand years ago Plato said that a lawyer is always in a hurry, so I think I will just say we are pleased…

We are very proud and very glad to have you, and I am greatly honored to welcome you here to your house.

In the courtrooms of the United States, you represent no individual but you represent the Government of your country.

Your service has been a great contribution, and I have not the slightest doubt that we would not be where we are today except for the leadership that you have given.

This is a national program to the benefit of all the people.

I believe the work of this Committee has done much to lay the groundwork for the responsible and, I believe, peaceful acceptance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This is a doubly gratifying privilege for me.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate July 9, 1964, as Monocacy Battle Centennial.

Let us honor them, men of North and South, as Americans.

The people of this country have a long, hard road to travel before we will have achieved all of our objectives.

I am satisfied that this is a report of success, a report of steady and substantial success in a most challenging field.

That plan has now grown to where it covers companies that employ more than 7 million people.

The ideal of equal opportunity, I believe, is the bedrock ideal of our society and of our system.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President, and in conformity with the provisions of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act…