Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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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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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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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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