It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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At 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.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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