For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life… — 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
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be… — 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