The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. — 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
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you… — 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
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time… He's a nice fellow, but he spent… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. — 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
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
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted… — 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 time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development… — 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
