As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAt 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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