If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable. Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson More Quotes From Lyndon B. Johnson [E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income. Lyndon B. Johnson money education men 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 want education children 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 teaching education school For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies. Lyndon B. Johnson college education school For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. Lyndon B. Johnson education years school 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 education children school We still seek no wider war. Lyndon B. Johnson vietnam-war stills war President Can't Swim. Lyndon B. Johnson swimming president swim Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. Lyndon B. Johnson future stars war The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. Lyndon B. Johnson future powerful space Control of space means control of the world. Lyndon B. Johnson future space mean We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts. Lyndon B. Johnson religious heart mean 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 design differences dream 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 future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant. Lyndon B. Johnson education peace country He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction. Lyndon B. Johnson age heart giving A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance. Lyndon B. Johnson remembrance age years Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion. Lyndon B. Johnson design inexperience age It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame. Lyndon B. Johnson age loss long A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy. Lyndon B. Johnson fire age desire I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube. Lyndon B. Johnson men peace people
