It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhile you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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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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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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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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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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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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