Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Light, Government

• A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Friends, Freedom, War

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.898, Best Books on

• Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Agreement, Liberty

• Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational Life, Justice, Liberty

  "271 - Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

• History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Liberty, Records

• Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

• Liberty is not enough.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Liberty, Enough

• A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

• 'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Clever

  Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965.

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