As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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