top 20 quotes from lyndon b.johnson

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Top 20 quotes from 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


Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson


The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Lyndon B. Johnson


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


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


Freedom is not enough.

Lyndon B. Johnson


The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson


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


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


I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson


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


In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Lyndon B. Johnson


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


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


Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson


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


Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson


What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson


One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson


I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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top 20 quotes from lyndon b.johnson

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