We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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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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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 have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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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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…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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