Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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