If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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