As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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