Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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