…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.
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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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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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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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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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