I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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