There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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