You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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