Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if… — 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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment. — 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 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
I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that… — 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
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. — 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
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a… — 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
