In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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