Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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.
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