Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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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You 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.
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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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