"If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and……" — Lyndon B. Johnson
"If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come."
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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson has 317 quotes on this site.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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More Affluent Quotes
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One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds…
— Jo Brand
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on…
— Al Capone
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A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply…
— Pope Francis
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of…
— Vaclav Smil
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled…
— John W. Gardner
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances,…
— Maurice Strong
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It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about…
— Cesar Chavez
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house…
— Eric Sevareid
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were…
— Lynn Woolsey
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick.…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity…
— Duane Elgin
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