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.
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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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