It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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 two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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