The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONTo hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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