Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 13

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• The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Military, Air

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• I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

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  Believe, People, Confusion

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• ...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Helping

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.298, Best Books on

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• Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

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  Law, Justice, Effort

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.299, Best Books on

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• If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  America, Giving, May

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• It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

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  Children, Air, People

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19".

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• So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

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  Real, Law, America

  Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 11, 1968.

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• I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

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  Country, Believe, Community

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• I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.

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  Education, White, Race

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  School, Justice, People

  Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.

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• Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

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  Appetite, Aggression

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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• Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

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  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967”, p.313, Best Books on

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• 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 know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

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  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

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• The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

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  Classroom, Trenches, Frontiers

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• The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

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  Future, Greatness, Yesterday

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• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Patriotic, Practice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Forgiveness, Law, Forgiving

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• A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

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  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

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• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
  behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

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  Determination, Lying, Believe

  News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

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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.

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  Men, Society, Quality

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• We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

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  Education, Jobs, Children

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.227, Best Books on

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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

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  Education, Money, School

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

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  Future, Water, Population

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.360, Best Books on

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• Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

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  Dream, Hands, Luxury

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