Quotes on Great Society

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

A small grove massacred to the last ash, _x000D_ _x000D_ An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: _x000D_ _x000D_ This great society is going to smash; _x000D_ _x000D_ They cannot fool us with how fast they go, _x000D_ _x000D_ How much they cost each other and the gods. _x000D_ _x000D_ A culture is no better than its woods.

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

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.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.