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'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspirational, Motivational, Clever
Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Fighting, Men, Rivers
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Thinking, Agreement, Liberty

In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Opportunity, Desire, Quality
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.262, Best Books on

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Space, Race, Quests
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Home, Motor Vehicles, Rivers
Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, Wife, Church

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Party, Presidential, Nominations
Broadcast address to the nation, 31 Mar. 1968

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Burden, Mayors, Heavy
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Party, Heart, Pride

Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Government, People, Wish
Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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
War, Government, Hands
Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 03, 1965.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Perspective, Special, Gains

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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

We must change to master change.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Change, Masters

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Real, Ambition, Men

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Use, Hunger, Worst

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Sarcastic, Character, Men

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Garden, Land, Pieces

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Business, Listening, Conflict

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Eye, Males, Female

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspirational Life, Justice, Liberty
"271 - Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Land, Shapes, Way
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1085, Best Books on

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Lyndon B. Johnson
Stars, Men, Diversity
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Football, Country, Games