Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if… — 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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out… — 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
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South… — 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
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open… — 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
