Great Society Quotes
34 Great Society quotes by 24 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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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
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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
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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
— William Wordsworth
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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
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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
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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
— Mark Steyn
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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
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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
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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
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A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Who Wrote These Great Society Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 34 Great Society Quotes as follows: