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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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