Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 12

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• I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

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  Believe, People, Confusion

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• ...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Helping

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.298, Best Books on

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• Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

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  Giving, Given, Great Responsibility

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• Freedom is not enough.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Enough

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

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  Years, Age, Citizens

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.812, Best Books on

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• A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

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  Fire, Age, Desire

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

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  War, Tired, Simple

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• 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.

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  Education, Military, Mean

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

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• If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

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  Carpe Diem, People, Generations

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• We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

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  Government, People, Firsts

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.291, Best Books on

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• In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

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  Life, Peace, War

  Let Us Continue, delivered 27 November 1963

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• It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

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  Honesty, Heart, Affection

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• The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

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  Commitment, People, Tests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.740, Best Books on

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• Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

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  Race, Color, Justice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1138, Best Books on

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

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  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

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  Men, Rivers, America

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• Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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  Decision, Single Life, President

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• For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

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  Helping, Can Do, Asks

  Remarks Upon Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. November 22, 1963.

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• In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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  Prayer, Home, Unapologetic

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• Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

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  Miracle, Today, Problem

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• 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.

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  Wall, Drinking, Character

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• I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

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  Peace, Men, People

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• Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

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  Law, Desire, Machinery

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1001, Best Books on

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• I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Talking

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• As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

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  Reflection, Past, Equality

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