In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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’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.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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 proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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But 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.
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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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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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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