As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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