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
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. — 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
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
Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is… — 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
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
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.… — 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
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
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — 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
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
