Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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 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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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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