The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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