This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBut 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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