Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — 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
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people. — 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
In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out… — 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
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — 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
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not… — 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
The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking… — 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
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
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
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the… — 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
