If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..
Lyndon B. JohnsonPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEvery citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEvery 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 future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.
Lyndon B. Johnson