But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut, 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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