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Government Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
- If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
- The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between the parties and agreement…
- "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words,…
- We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western…
- In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid…
- Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
- This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any…
- First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with…
- If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends…
- A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one…
- I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every…
- You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it…
- I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do…
- A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
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- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
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