We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBetter to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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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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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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 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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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