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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today’s youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
So here is the Great Society. It’s the time - and it’s going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)
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 nation’s sake (Lyndon B Johnson Quotes)