Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 5

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• In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.

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  Opportunity, Desire, Quality

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.262, Best Books on

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

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  Country, Space, Agency

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

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  Country, War, Adversity

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• Let no one ever think for a moment that national debate means national division.

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  Mean, Thinking, Division

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.599, Best Books on

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• A man without a vote is man without protection.

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  Patriotic, Men, Vote

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• I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

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  Storm, Hail, Caught

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• All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

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  Presidential, Today, Given

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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• Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

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  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

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• The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Fifth

  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 issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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  Struggle, Rights, Issues

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

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  Education, Teaching, School

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

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  Party, Heart, Pride

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• For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

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  Education, School, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Environment

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• As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

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  Stars, Men, Diversity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

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  Football, Nice, Guy

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• It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

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  People, Way, Apollo

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• It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

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  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

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  Education, School, Destiny

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

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  Real, Self, America

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• First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

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  Education, America, Government

  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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• Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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  Thinking, Agreement, Liberty

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• Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

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  Success, Leadership, Knowing

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