The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand,… — 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
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
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — 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
