We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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