“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership… — Stephen Skowronek Copy Share Image
“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
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