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Great Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness…
- We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we…
- We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
- This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches…
- . . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty…
- At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the…
- The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
- So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.
- The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man…
- Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural…
- The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place…
- Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything…
- A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not…
- The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every…
- We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education…
- We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than…
- In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in…
- The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
- I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
- I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded…
- He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.
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