When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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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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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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