Lyndon Johnson actually said...

A great public servant in the early days of the republic of my State said: 'Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men will recognize, and the only ruler that free men will accept.'

Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education.

07/20/1965

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