"If government is to serve any purpose it……" — Lyndon B. Johnson

"If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts…
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…

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