Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 9

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• Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Ignorance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.27, Best Books on

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• [E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Men

  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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• Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

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  Sleep, Night, Light

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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  Spiritual, Israel, America

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.947, Best Books on

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• This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, America, Tomorrow

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• Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Patriotic, Opportunity

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• Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cynicism

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• The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

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  Government, People, Littles

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1040, Best Books on

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• But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beach, Swimming, Men

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• Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Facts, Emancipation, Proclamation

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, War, Adversity

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• 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 is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Sleep, Patriotic

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

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  Rivers, Community, Balance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1001, Best Books on

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• I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Night

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

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  Children, Home, Fate

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• I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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  Believe, Fighting, Vietnam

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.4, Best Books on

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• I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

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  Mother, Running, Strong

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• I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

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  Peace, Morning, War

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• I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Successful, Credit

  To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

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  Peace, War, Boys

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• One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Golf, President, Lessons

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• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Office, Religion

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• All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Neutrality

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• All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Presidential, Today, Given

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Order, United States, Democrat

  Texas Quarterly, Winter 1958

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