For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
