No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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 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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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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