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Great Society

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Great Society

Political slogan coined 1965 by US President Lyndon B Johnson to describe the ideal society to be created by his administration (1963-68), and to which all other nations would aspire. The programme included extensive social welfare legislation, most of which was subsequently passed by Congress.


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If it is strange for me to look back from a distance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you who tread the same streets--who may to-morrow open the door of the old Speculative, where we begin to rank with Scott and Robert Emmet and the beloved and inglorious Macbean--or may pass the corner of the close where that great society, the L.
At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign parts.
So in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
 
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