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. 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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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