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It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

Lyndon B. Johnson
People, Way, Apollo

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, Children, Community
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.639, Best Books on

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Money, Believe

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Entrepreneur, Bed

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Struggle, Rights
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Fate, Men, Shapes
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Adventure, Men, Rare Events

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Done

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas, Iowa, People

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Motivational, Success, Business

Come now. let us reason together.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Presidential, Together, Reason
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Prayer, Destiny, Men

What convinces is conviction.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Conviction, Convince

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Mother, Two, Essentials

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, Understanding, Together

...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Responsibility, Presidential

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Two, Kind, Subjects

Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Real, Self, America

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Gratitude, Nature, Patriotic
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I dont like to say this and wish I didnt have to add these words to make it clear but I willregardless of color, creed, ancestry, sex or age.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Sex, Lying, Integrity
Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

Lyndon B. Johnson
War, Men, Cities
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Destiny, People, Giving
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Art, Carpe Diem, People
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

Lyndon B. Johnson
War, Enemy, Vietnam
On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968