Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBeing president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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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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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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