We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced… — 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
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so… — 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
An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence… — 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
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
In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change. — 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
