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.
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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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