The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The saddest of all Kings
Crowned, and again discrowned.
‘By the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross’
Alone he rides, alone,
The fair and fatal king.
‘By the Statue of King Charles I at Charing Cross’
There Shelley dreamed his white Platonic dreams.
‘Oxford’
In her ears the chime
Of full, sad bells brings back her old springtide.
‘Oxford’
I know you: solitary griefs,
Desolate passions, aching hours.
‘The Precept of Silence’
10.32 Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908-73
All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
First speech to Congress as President, 27 November 1963, following the assassination of J. F. Kennedy, in
‘Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 1, p. 8
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred
years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.
Speech to Congress, 27 November 1963, in ‘Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B.
Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 1, p. 9
We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a
brotherhood.
Speech at lighting of the Nation’s Christmas Tree, 22 December 1963, in ‘Public Papers of the Presidents of
the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 1, item 65
In your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the
powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Speech at University of Michigan, 22 May 1964, in ‘Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 1, p. 704
We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still
seek no wider war.
Speech on radio and television, 4 August 1964, in ‘Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 2, p. 927
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian
boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Speech at Akron University, 21 October 1964, in ‘Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64’ vol. 2, p. 1391
I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
‘Texas Quarterly’ Winter 1958