39 quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

“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

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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Freedom is not enough.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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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.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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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.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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