Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Our men and women in uniform are owed the right to protect themselves and others while in service of our country.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

I'd love to serve my country. I would love it.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

My daughters, now you participate in serving our country. Our task is to maintain public security, and that can only come with revolutionary action. You have to be aware of the Leader’s support in getting you here.

Do not think, however, that our nation needs only men to serve it. Women should also take their part as women did in the early years of Islam. The valuable services rendered by women are recounted throughout history from which we learn that women were not created solely for pleasure and comfort. From their examples we learn that we must all contribute toward the development of our nation and that this can not be done without being equipped with knowledge…

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

I hope my studies may be an encouragement to other women, especially to young women, to devote their lives to the larger interests of the mind. It matters little whether men or women have the more brains; all we women need to do to exert our proper influence is just to use all the brains we have.

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

In every country women were dramatically empowered to fill the places of millions of absent men.

I don't think anybody accepts the idea that somehow I should be punished because I actually served our country during a very difficult time post-9/11. That required me to actually be out of Arkansas for a few years.

It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.

My family have a long story of service to our country.

The uniform I wear today is that of the United States Army. We do not serve any particular political party; we serve the nation.