If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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