Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 6

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• The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

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  Prayer, Destiny, Men

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• [E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Men

  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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• Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Two, Kind, Subjects

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• Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Time, Fog, Dumb

  Quoted in Richard Reeves, A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975)

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• Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Giving, Given, Great Responsibility

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Unity, Way, Common

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1634, Best Books on

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• If you're not listening, you're not learning.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Business, Listening, Conflict

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• But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Gratitude, Nature, Patriotic

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Men, Rivers

  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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• This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, America, Tomorrow

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• It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Done

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• At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fate, Men, Shapes

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

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• Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Ambition, Men

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• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Adventure, Men, Rare Events

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• The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Men, Cities

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

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• The noblest search is the search for excellence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, History, Political

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• Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Enemy, Vietnam

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Presidential, Nominations

  Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

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• Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
  only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Wish

  Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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• The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Population Problem, Decision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

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• We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

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  War, Government, Hands

  Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 03, 1965.

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• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Office, Religion

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• We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Moving, Opportunity

  Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 22 May 1964

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• The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Garden, Land, Pieces

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