Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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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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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 believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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