Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    “Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in his wisdom had put upon this Earth.”
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    “The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)