The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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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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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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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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