The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAll 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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