Lyndon Johnson

It may be that our most important constituents are not our contemporaries, but the men and women who will inherit America from us in twenty years or fifty years.

We can live with each other if we try and we can build greatness here as we have in the last 30 years.

These days, it is difficult for me to read some of the English newspapers as well.

Today we are trying to unload those dice.

Mr. President, I do want to offer you my congratulations this evening--congratulations on your shrewd political sense.

Trial by jury is one of the oldest democratic rights enshrined in the American system.

We must protect every citizen of this land in the exercise of his civil rights.

It advances the civil rights of those who still reach for their full, and what we believe their proper, place in our society.

So my friends, I will ask you now to toast that journey and to toast that kinship that will brighten our way.

The United States dollar is, at present, the cornerstone of that system.

We are drawing closer, I think, ever closer to the fulfillment of a promise that this Nation made to ourselves and to the world many, many years ago.

I am shocked to even think that the boys I put on the plane at the 82d Airborne--most of whom were Negro boys going back to Vietnam the second time to protect that flag and to preserve our freedom--that they can't live near the base where…

You were very wise, I think, in scrapping the old title--the Grand Old Party.

I am hopeful that the Civil Rights Act--which we have passed through a body that has been very difficult, in my experience, to pass civil rights bills through, in past years--can pass the House of Representatives; and we will finally put…

The measures we have undertaken will insure the continued strength of the dollar.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a toast to our faithful friends, the people of Liberia, President Tubman, and his gracious lady, who honors us with her presence.

We accept your leadership and your partnership, Mr. President, in the faith that has joined our two nations for more than a century and a half.

Each departure from the ideal--whether it was deliberate or not, and we won't spend a lot of time debating whether it was deliberate--left a great scar on the thing we take so much pride in, that we call American justice.

More than 100 years ago Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

World trade joins nations in economic progress.

Too often the jury lists have tended to exclude citizens who were poor or who were not 'in' or who may have lacked charisma or may have been members of a minority group.

The time for action is here.

We have come here today to infuse some new strength into our democratic system of government.

So let us continue in that spirit, allowing no doubts of today to limit the promise of what we can achieve tomorrow.

This situation cannot be allowed to continue.