Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it,… — 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
For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the… — 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
