Lyndon B. Johnson Patriotic Quotations

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.