Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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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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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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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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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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find 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 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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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