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It rests not on our cities or our prairies, or our wealth; it rests on the unconquerable spirit of our people.

This office is a difficult office, and any who occupy it must be a humble man before the task that he faces.

I also urge Federal, State, and local officials, and the people of the United States, generally, to assist in making our overseas visitors welcome and in furthering their enjoyment of their visit to our country.

The office of the Presidency is, as one President described it, "pre-eminently the people's office.

An enlightened Government can, and will, and must lead the way.

This house is honored by the presence of such distinguished guests.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the value of the New York World's Fair as an effective instrument for the promotion of international understanding, good will, tourism and…

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, on this thirtieth day of April in the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-four, do hereby proclaim the ensuing twelve months a period of commemoration of the beginnings of the…

They see America as an era unto itself, not as the beginning of a new era for all mankind.

I, for one, feel that there is a genuine need to restudy, reevaluate, reassess many aspects of this office and its functioning as an office in these times.

It is your job as prophets in our time to direct the immense power of religion in shaping the conduct and the thoughts of men toward their brothers in a manner consistent with compassion and love.

A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry.

Today, again the problem of racial wrongs and racial hatreds is the central moral problem of this Republic.

This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because justice and morality demand it.

We have never been stronger in the history of our country.

We must quit thinking of it just as a force for destruction, or as an instrument for war.

I want to thank you for your efforts.

We know that is what you women want to do.