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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONHeck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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