Lyndon Johnson

But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.

But we will not let the record of the last few years lull us into confidence or complacency or contentment.

In the past 4 years we have moved farther and faster toward the goals that we share than at any time in our country's history.

I want to repeat again to you good people who have made this sacrifice to come out here this evening, in all of these fields your principles, Minnesota principles, have helped to shape the progress of all America.

You answered his call. America began to move.

And we are going to use all the skill and all the energy that God has given us in order to keep these doors of opportunity open for every child in the land.

You no longer stand alone. You are part of a great national forward march, and I am here to tell you that as long as I am President of the United States you will never be alone.

I never for a moment entertain a doubt that there is any commissar or any regimented slave labor anywhere in the world that can outproduce or outsurpass or outlive our system of capital, management, and labor in the good old U.S.A.

In the past 4 years, under Democratic leadership, we have reached new heights of prosperity.

Resolve tonight to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

We must not be content to sit back in our rocking chair and let the rest of the world go by, because we must have objectives, we must have ambitions, we must have the pioneering spirit today that came to this Nation 200 years ago.

Minnesota believes in peace.

You have great quality but you need better quantity.

As a matter of fact, I know of no State in the Union that supplies better public servants than the State of Minnesota.

This State has supplied to Washington some of our greatest Democrats.

I want to particularly thank the band for coming out and giving us such good music.

And may God grant us that understanding.

But that is the road that we are going to take.

I hope all of you have tickets to the dinner tonight.

And I would remind you good Americans tonight that there is a law more hallowed than the civil rights bill, more hallowed than even the Constitution of the United States.

I am very fond of your Senators and your entire congressional delegation in Washington.

But our future doesn't depend on that and that is not the strength of our future.

I hope you will invite me back.

It is only the beginning of the journey.

I do not yet know the answer to all the problems of agriculture.