Robert A. Caro Quotes

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.