We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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