America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
