For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNo member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.
Lyndon B. Johnson