Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 16

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• [The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

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  Israel, Presidential, United States

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• No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

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  Life, Peace, Thinking

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• Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

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  Education, Powerful, Essentials

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

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  Dream, Differences, Design

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1077, Best Books on

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ... Most, if not all of you, have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do; for my Christian faith sprang from yours. The Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modem Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Memories

  "A Just and Dignified Peace". Lyndon Johnson's Speech on the state of the Middle East, September 10, 1968.

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• It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders.

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  Education, Mean, Challenges

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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• And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

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  Education, Reality, Goal

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• Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

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  Book, Ignorance, Ideas

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.285, Best Books on

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• Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

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  Bombs, May, Want

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• The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.

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  Education, Children, Work Out

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• We still seek no wider war.

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  War, Vietnam War, Stills

  Broadcast speech, 4 Aug. 1964

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• They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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  Jobs, Boys, Asian

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

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  Political, President, Politics

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• This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

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  Inspiring, Country, Religious

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• Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

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  Education, Law, Promise

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

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• Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

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  War, Crime, Organized

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• Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

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  Men, Grace, Accused

  1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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• For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

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  Achievement, World, Path

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1104, Best Books on

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• Every President wants to do right.

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  President, Want

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• The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

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  Country, Moon, Use

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.487, Best Books on

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• Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

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  Rights, Law, Land

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

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• A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

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  Children, Compassion, Government

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• Control of space means control of the world.

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  Future, Mean, Space

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

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  Years, Remembrance, Age

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• Freedom is not enough.

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  Freedom, 4th Of July, Enough

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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