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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success. -- Alphonso Jackson
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer. -- Charles Krauthammer
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
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. -- Strom Thurmond
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back. -- Rush Limbaugh
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. -- Mark Steyn
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
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
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One] -- Lyndon B. Johnson
For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population. -- Mark Steyn
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
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. -- George Gilder
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. -- Anthony Bourdain
The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help. -- Charles Krauthammer
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
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter. -- Helen Thomas
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
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
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina. -- George McGovern
It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society. -- Ron Lewis
Habit is the great flywheel of society. -- William James
The great hope of society is in individual character -- William Ellery Channing
The great hope of society is in individual character. -- William Ellery Channing
Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society. -- Nancy Friday
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. -- Farhan Akhtar
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music. -- Eyedea
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. -- David Baltimore
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. -- Alfred Austin
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. -- Kenzo Tange
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. -- William Graham Sumner
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps -- Karl Marx
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. -- William Wordsworth
I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society. -- Sanna Lenken
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: -- William Shakespeare
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. -- Joseph Lancaster
Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society. -- J. Gordon Melton
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity. -- Frances Power Cobbe
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. -- Jeffrey Lewis
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. -- Pope John Paul II
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past. -- Lawrence Lessig
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace -- Karen Armstrong
Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today. -- Steve Maraboli
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. -- John Adams
Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. -- Alain de Botton
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. -- Henry Steele Commager
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. -- Edward Kennedy
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. -- Gaston Caperton
There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. -- Leonard Slatkin
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. -- Michael Burgess
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. -- Michael Burgess
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. -- Oscar Wilde
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. -- B. R. Ambedkar
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color -- John F. Kennedy
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. -- Sebastien Chamfort
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. -- Bong Joon-ho
There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. -- Willa Cather
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. -- Leo Tolstoy
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. -- Murray Rothbard
The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me. -- Bella Thorne
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 freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. -- Noam Chomsky
We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West. -- Hillary Clinton
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. -- Paul Keating
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. -- Eric Hoffer
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts. -- Adam Davidson
What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. -- Anne Frank
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. -- Rachel Bloom
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. -- David Hume
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm. -- Lawrence Klein
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. -- Fareed Zakaria
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. -- C. L. R. James
...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society. -- J. Stalin
Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people. -- Edward Abbey
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society. -- Walter Lippmann
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm. -- Lawrence Klein
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top. -- Gail Carriger
Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism. -- Bryant McGill
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society. -- Bill Moyers
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. -- Angela Davis
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. -- Gustave Flaubert
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society. -- James Madison
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. -- Gustave Flaubert
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can. -- Mas Oyama
I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential. -- Peter Capaldi
Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two. -- Ralph Nader
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. -- William Graham Sumner
The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic. -- Timothy Dwight IV
Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. -- John Fowles
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. -- John Adams
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. -- Robert Hugh Benson
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. -- Noam Chomsky
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. -- Edmund Burke
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. -- Nat Turner
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer." -- Nat Turner

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