Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Honesty, Truth, Government

• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Patriotic, Practice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Father, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

• Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Military, Mean

  Remarks on the Message on Education, January 12, 1965.

• For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Real

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.773, Best Books on

• I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Democracy, Trying, Way

• If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  History, Giving, Democracy

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

• Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Voting, Democracy, Firsts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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