Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes - Page 9

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• It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Patriotic, Always Trying

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

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  Facts, Emancipation, Proclamation

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• You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

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  Friendship, Dog, Sleep

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• I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

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  Democracy, Trying, Way

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• In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.171, Best Books on

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• I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

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  Girl, Children, Pain

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• The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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  President, Lasts, Wartime

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• This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

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  Uplifting, Education, Country

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• Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

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  Wish, Doe, Stones

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.562, Best Books on

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• You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

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  Learning, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential

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• A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

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  Education, Children, America

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

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• America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

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  Art, America, Humanity

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• Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Latin, Pyramids, America

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

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• My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

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  Country, Prayer, Boys

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.417, Best Books on

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

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  Country, Women, Opportunity

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• I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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  Mean, Men, People

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• There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

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  Future, Grandchildren, Order

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

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• It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.

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  Uplifting, Believe, Hero

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• In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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  Home, Ambition, Boys

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

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• I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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  Life, Courage, Fear

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

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  Heart, People, Envy

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• Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

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  Presidential, Four, Pillars

  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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• Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

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  Baby, Kissing, Bills

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• Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

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  Education, School, America

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

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• For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Sleep, Patriotic

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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