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.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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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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