Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 14

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• There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Voting, Vote, Poor

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• The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

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  Exercise, Power, Agony

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.496, Best Books on

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• If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

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  America, Giving, May

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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

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  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

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  Education, Mean, Challenges

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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

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  Education, Reality, Goal

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• Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

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  Education, Powerful, Essentials

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

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  Dream, Differences, Design

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1077, Best Books on

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• History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

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  Education, Liberty, Records

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• Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

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  Education, Law, Promise

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

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• The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the parties and agreement can be achieved only through negotiations between them. The United States will not impose the terms of peace. The United States is prepared to supply military equipment necessary to support the efforts of friendly governments, like Israel's, to defend the safety of their people.

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  Military, Party, Government

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• 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

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  Education, White, Race

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

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  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• We still seek no wider war.

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  War, Vietnam War, Stills

  Broadcast speech, 4 Aug. 1964

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• It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

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  Education, Money, Luxury

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1103, Best Books on

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• So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

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  Country, Economy, Poor

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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

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  Education, Money, School

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

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• Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

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  Running, Peace, Heart

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• Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

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  Appetite, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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• Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

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  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Children, Men

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

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• Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.

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  Too Much, Air Force

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• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

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  Poverty, Firsts, Conquer

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

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• Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

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  College, Years, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.124, Best Books on

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• When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

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  Names, Poverty, Common

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

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