You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWhen the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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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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