If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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