Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIt’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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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