But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNever miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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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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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.
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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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