Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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