America Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

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