Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONTo 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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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