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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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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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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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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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