It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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 do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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