In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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