Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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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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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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