Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 4

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• Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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  Men, Wife, Church

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• We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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  Brotherhood, World, Neighborhood

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• Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

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  Funny, Time, Smart

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

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  Education, Country, Peace

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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

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• We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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  Country, Book, Writing

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

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  Family, Children, Community

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.639, Best Books on

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• To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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  Eye, Males, Female

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• I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

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  Dust, Storm, Rabbits

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• Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

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  Ideas, President, Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.819, Best Books on

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• This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

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  Mother, Father, Parent

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.593, Best Books on

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• Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

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  Writing, May, Want

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• Come now. let us reason together.

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  Presidential, Together, Reason

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

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• Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

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  Football, Country, Games

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• When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

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  Kindness, Complaining, Littles

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• Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

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  Hug, Enemy, Ems

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• The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

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  Education, Jobs, Journey

  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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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

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  Oil, Rivers, Toxic Waste

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

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  Powerful, Future, Space

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• There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

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  Mother, Two, Essentials

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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  Party, Two, Political

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• I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

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  Believe, Patriotic, Destiny

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.765, Best Books on

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• The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

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  Stupid, Organization, Boots

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• All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

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  Phones, Needs, Answers

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