It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOur understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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