Great Society Quotes

34 Great Society quotes by 24 unique authors

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on… — Rush Limbaugh
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps.… — Michele Bachmann
I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed… — Antonin Scalia
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. — Fannie Lou Hamer
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that… — Learned Hand
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond… — Helen Thomas
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated… — Walter Lippmann
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. — Mark Steyn
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for… — Hunter S. Thompson
Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from… — Lindsay Fox
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. — L. Ron Hubbard
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. — Alfred North Whitehead
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects… — George Gilder
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods. — Lyndon B. Johnson
So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing… — Charles Krauthammer
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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