In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid… — 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
