Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOf 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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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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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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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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