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Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Military, Mean
Remarks on the Message on Education, January 12, 1965.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Carpe Diem, People, Generations

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Women, Opportunity

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Government, People, Firsts
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.291, Best Books on

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Life, Peace, War
Let Us Continue, delivered 27 November 1963

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Honesty, Heart, Affection

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Commitment, People, Tests
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.740, Best Books on

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Race, Color, Justice
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1138, Best Books on

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Money, Ignorance
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.27, Best Books on

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Family, Attitude, Children
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Rivers, America

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Running, Trouble, Parliament

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Bars, Poverty, Offers
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Helping, Can Do, Asks
Remarks Upon Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. November 22, 1963.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Political, President, Politics

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Prayer, Home, Unapologetic

So, I would appeal to my fellow Americans by saying, the only real road to progress for free people is through the process of law and that is the road that America will travel.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Real, Law, America
Remarks Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 11, 1968.

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Jobs, Colorado River, Rivers

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Believe, Community

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Political, Presidential, Tasks
State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

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
Decision, Single Life, President

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, Humanity, World

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Lyndon B. Johnson
Forgiveness, Law, Forgiving

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Unique, Humanity, May

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Book, Ignorance, Ideas
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.285, Best Books on