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Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

Faith builds, cynicism destroys.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Cynicism

The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Government, People, Littles
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.1040, Best Books on

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Patriotic, Opportunity

But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Beach, Swimming, Men

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Facts, Emancipation, Proclamation

We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, War, Adversity

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Stars, Sleep, Patriotic
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Rivers, Community, Balance
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1001, Best Books on

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Lyndon B. Johnson
War, Tired, Night

It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Children, Home, Fate

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Fighting, Vietnam
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.4, Best Books on

I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Mother, Running, Strong

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, Morning, War

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Successful, Credit
To columnist Hugh Sidey. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, War, Boys

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace, War, Neutrality

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Believe, Office, Religion

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Golf, President, Lessons

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Presidential, Today, Given
Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Opportunity, Doors

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Order, United States, Democrat
Texas Quarterly, Winter 1958

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Education, Dream, Money
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Birthday, Men, Luxury

Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Summer, Education, Jobs
Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities ... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Country, Men, Cities