Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I am a free man first, an American second, a public servant third, and a Democrat fourth--in that order.

Remarks at a Democratic Party Rally in Newark

10/06/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

I will never forget this long afternoon that I have spent in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.

You only have to be with them a few minutes and you know what real courage is.

He is doing what brave men must do when they face tyranny.

Good men must sometimes leave their homes and their loved ones, to take arms against the agents of oppression.