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. 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 can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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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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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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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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