Every President wants to do right. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. Lyndon B. Johnson deny responsibility trouble We must change to master change. Lyndon B. Johnson masters change We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. Lyndon B. Johnson brotherhood neighborhood world Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. Lyndon B. Johnson speech president ideas Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge. Lyndon B. Johnson knowing challenges success Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us. Lyndon B. Johnson summer education jobs 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. Lyndon B. Johnson ambition home boys Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good. Lyndon B. Johnson environment I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none. Lyndon B. Johnson party pride heart 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 winning integrity believe The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. Lyndon B. Johnson presidential nuts littles This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants. Lyndon B. Johnson motor-vehicles home rivers To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. Lyndon B. Johnson hunger worst use I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that? Lyndon B. Johnson politics political powerful 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 Lyndon B. Johnson government wish people John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many. Lyndon B. Johnson hate mind country John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits. Lyndon B. Johnson american-politics suits damn We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted. Lyndon B. Johnson cities men country Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. Lyndon B. Johnson bills kissing baby Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have Lyndon B. Johnson denial vote citizens
