Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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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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