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
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines… — 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
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill… — 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
