Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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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 land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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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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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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