Lyndon Johnson Great Society Quotes & Sayings

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. — Lyndon B. Johnson

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything? — Abu Bakar Bashir

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.
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On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live. — Douglas Adams

If your lost you might need to swim against the tide — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Love is where unseen and unsaid things
merge with each other
where silence is thirsty of happenings — Seema Gupta

He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible. — Bruce Beresford

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity. — Martin Filler

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

The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships. — Brian Tracy

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

And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits. — Ed Rendell

That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson

And even a tea party means apprehension, breakage — Virginia Woolf

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Because as soon as I leave after having you, I want you again. And then even when I have that, it's not enough. When I see another man look at you the way I do, I want to kill him. I want to swallow you. I want to consume you. I want to possess you. I want you. — Nina G. Jones

A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. — Lyndon B. Johnson