In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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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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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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