Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

• Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Summer, Education, Jobs

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

• And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Reality, Goal

• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Children, Men

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Cutting, Men

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

• Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Drinking, Character

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