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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONKnowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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