There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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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 want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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