Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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 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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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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 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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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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 land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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