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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONFree speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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