When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON…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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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