When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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We 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.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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