Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIf you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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