"an inspiring moment in the history of this human race."
"[This] means that a high school senior, anywhere in this great land of ours, can apply to any college or any university in any of the 50 states and not be turned away because his family is poor."
"you have to bite the bullet, you have to do what you have to do in order to accomplish what it is that you want to accomplish"
"there is no gain without some pain"
"We have declared unconditional war on poverty. Our objective is total victory."
"Education is the only valid passport out of poverty."
"Our duty must be clear to us. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. We have all sworn an oath before God to support and defend that Constitut..."
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."
"We have declared unconditional War on Poverty. Our objective is total victory."
"I believe that 30 years from now Americans will look back upon these 1960s as the time of the great American breakthrough, the victory of prosperity over poverty."
"The grants under this law will be modest in dollars but will be far reaching in results."