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“The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“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.”

Challenges Destiny Our Lives Society Products Safe Labor Finals Finished Objectives Working It Marvelous Idealism Harbors Great Society Beckoning Finished Work Safe Harbor

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”

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Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826

“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.”

Men Feels Body Social Existence Accepting Moral Environment Greater Society Subjects Materials Conscience Privilege Superiors Characteristics Superiority Yoke Great Society

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“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.”

Men Life Firsts Nations Hours Chance Generations Society Labor This Generation Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.”

Thinking Men Society Function Great Society

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas