There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLight at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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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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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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