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Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Miracle, Today, Problem

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Achievement, World, Path
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1104, Best Books on

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Moon, Use
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.487, Best Books on

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

Lyndon B. Johnson
America, Giving, May

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

Lyndon B. Johnson
Children, Air, People
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19".

We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Cycling, Should Have, Cities
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.161, Best Books on

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Law, Promise
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Liberty, Records

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Beauty, Children, Men
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Powerful, Essentials
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Society, Quality

Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands more than 100 years ago.

Lyndon B. Johnson
College, Years, Land
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.124, Best Books on

Freedom is not enough.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom, 4th Of July, Enough
Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspiring, Country, Religious

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Exercise, Power, Agony
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.496, Best Books on

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Children, Compassion, Government
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Grief, Hands, Long

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Wise, Age, Employment

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Grace, Accused
1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Dream, Hands, Luxury

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Pain, Thinking, Age

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Children, Knowledge, Mind
The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Distance, Sleep, Funeral

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
Loss, Long, Age

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, Age, Inexperience