I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music… — 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
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon… — 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
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
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories;… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — 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
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts… — 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 Image
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 Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
