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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLife is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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