Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Our goal, in short, is to offer to every citizen one of the greatest blessings: a sure sense of his own usefulness.

Annual Message to the Congress: The President's Manpower Report.

04/30/1967

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

And may God grant us that understanding.

If our future depended on our numbers, our adversaries could defeat us tonight.

And I would remind you good Americans tonight that there is a law more hallowed than the civil rights bill, more hallowed than even the Cons...

But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.