Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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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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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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