…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. 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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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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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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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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