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's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon
Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

American frontier American character

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1965, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Lyndon B. Johnson about the American frontier: “For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed…”
Download
A quote by Lyndon B. Johnson about the American frontier: “For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed…”
Download
A quote by Lyndon B. Johnson about the American frontier: “For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1960s

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

More information about this quote
Topic
Nature of freedom Liberation Freedom

Author

James Baldwin
Source
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Medium
Essay
Language
English
Time
1961 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

Another quote from the following genre Political speech

A man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

Barack Obama

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon
Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website
More information about this quote
Topic
American politics
Speaker
Barack Obama
Source
First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama Presidential inaugural address
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
2009 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Obama, Barack. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2009, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.