521 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake – but for the nation’s sake.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today’s population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country – instead of dying for it.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky – these are man’s most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

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.

Power is where power goes.