I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom Lyndon B. Johnson spaceimportantlying The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well. Lyndon B. Johnson citieswindwater So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life. Lyndon B. Johnson passionexpectationsthinking Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another. Lyndon B. Johnson behindsstillsunderstanding While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. Lyndon B. Johnson savinglosingfaces Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole. Lyndon B. Johnson wiseheartspring I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. Lyndon B. Johnson confusionbelievepeople ...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility. Lyndon B. Johnson responsibilityhelpingopportunity 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 pillarspresidentialfour 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 educationchildrenamerica A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be. Lyndon B. Johnson eyepresidentmoving We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere. Lyndon B. Johnson governmentwarhands 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. Lyndon B. Johnson humanityamericaart Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others those attempts which he neglects himself. Lyndon B. Johnson passionjourneymen Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. Lyndon B. Johnson great-responsibilitygivengiving There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights. Lyndon B. Johnson issuesstrugglerights He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. Lyndon B. Johnson guynicefootball 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. Lyndon B. Johnson educationamericaschool What convinces is conviction. Lyndon B. Johnson convinceconviction In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson educationteacherchildren
