[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important – a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other...

It is time to write it in the books of law.” By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln,...