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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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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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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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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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