Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers… — 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
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — 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
So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of… — 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
