Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLet 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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