Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONGreater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Let 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.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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