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.'

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

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  America, Giving, May

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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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Believe, Community

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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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• In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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  Prayer, Home, Unapologetic

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• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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  Bars, Poverty, Offers

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

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• I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

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  Country, Home, America

  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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• The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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  Powerful, Hands, Sky

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• Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

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  Success, Military, Congratulations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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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

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  Forgiveness, Law, Forgiving

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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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• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

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  Grief, Hands, Long

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• Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

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  Motivational, Expression, Suffering

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• The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

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  Exercise, Power, Agony

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.496, Best Books on

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

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  Home, Patriotic, Practice

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

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  Education, Money, Luxury

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1103, Best Books on

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• There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Voting, Vote, Poor

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