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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONDemocrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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